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Streamliner

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who or that which streamlines something.

    "He turned out to be a brilliant expert on timber and on the lumber business in general, a specialist on soils, and an amazing streamliner of earth-moving work."

  2. 2
    a streamlined train wordnet
  3. 3
    Something with a streamlined design, especially railroad locomotives and passenger equipment.

    "[…] the three streamliners, still on their 29½ hr. schedule, start at 9.40 a.m., also turn-and-turn-about, and so arranged that the 9.0 and 9.40 a.m. departures are by different routes each day; [...]."

Etymology

From streamline + -er (agent noun suffix) or -er (patient suffix).

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